the city: San Francisco Civilian War Council, Nov. 1942. Single 9x5.5 inch cardstock leaf printed recto only, diecut perforation at top for display. Perhaps 75 words of text. A bit toned, a very good copy. The mayor, Angelo J. Rossi, is listed as president of the war council. More
Cat.No: 167486
Chambery, France: Establissements Fred Miege, [1930s]. Collection of items from the French company that specialized in fire-fighting equipment. Catalog: 40p., wraps bound with metal brads, 11.25 x 9.25 inches landscape format, profusely illus., wraps edgeworn with a few small stains and small closed tears, rear wrap sunned along edges else..... More
Cat.No: 250911
Dayton, Ohio: Women in Fire Suppression, 1982-1999. A nearly complete run of the first seventeen years of the monthly newsletter, missing only eight issues from this span (Sept. 1990, June and Nov. 1992, April 1995, Jan. 1996, July 1997, June and Dec. 1998). The first issue is November 1982, possibly..... More
Cat.No: 245350
Washington DC: United States Office of Civilian Defense, Training Section, 1942. Pamphlet. 52p., staplebound booklet, very good. 4.5x7.5 inches. Guide for those in charge of maintaining the lookout for incendiary bomb attacks during WWII. Includes a comic book-style section on magnesium bombs and methods of putting them out. More
Cat.No: 271817
Cupertino: California History Center, 1973. 72p., 5.5x8.5 inches, map, preface, footnotes, sources, photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Short historical essays by Mary Black, Walter de Veechi, Gloria J. Reagan and others. More
Cat.No: 99643
New York: The Continental Iron Works, 1906. Pamphlet. 30p., profuse photoillustrations and diagrams with text and statistics, printed in black and red every leaf on high-gloss alkaline heavy paperstock, softbound, a pamplet in 11.5x9 inch self-wraps. Disbound (once sewn, only stab-holes remain) and missing a leaf: pagination is consistent except..... More
Cat.No: 254030
San Francisco: The Advergraph Press, 1906. Single leaf of alkaline coated paper folded to nine double-sided 4x6 inch panels reproducing b&w disaster scenes, eighteen views, the folded packet tipped into a drab cardstock folder titled in gilt. Nicely gotten up and in very good unmolested condition. Less fortunately, reproductions are..... More
Cat.No: 227188
Berkeley: Berkeley-Albany-Kensington Girl Scout Council, [1960-?]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, very good. An appeal for donations after the group's camp in the El Dorado National Forest burned down in October 1959. Includes before-and-after photos. More
Cat.No: 271434
![Proceedings of the Thirty-Third [-Fourth, -Fifth, -Seventh, -Ninth] Annual Meeting of the Fire...](/pictures/thumb/182686.jpg?v=1516518545)
San Francisco: Printed by Order of the Association, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915. Paperback. 174, 190, 143, iii, 233, 269p., mugshots and group portraits on inserted coated stock, softbounds in 9x6 inch plain printed wraps. Issue dates printed on spines except for 1910, hand-written. General mild edgewear and dimming, with..... More
Cat.No: 182686
New York: Workers United / SEIU, 2011. 12x24 inch poster on heavy stock, very good, stored rolled. Announces a centennial commemoration by labor unionists. More
Cat.No: 235358
Alameda, CA: author, 1924-1925. 11p plus 3 newspaper clippings, 8.5 x 11 inches,typed letters and public statements by the Alameda City Council in opposing an 1925 amendment to the pension ordinance proposed by the local fire fighters and police departments, includes an analysis of the amendment by the city manager..... More
Cat.No: 164651
Santa Monica: Percival Press, 2003. Hardcover. Unpaginated, perhaps 40p. of thick high-quality paperstock, some philosophical text (we are witnessing actual divination, &c) and minimalist captions, b&w ritual photographs throughout in laminated pictorial 9x6 inch boards; a very good copy. Stated to be in a run of 1,000 copies only. FYI..... More
Cat.No: 166754
San Francisco: Benro Ent. 1972. Magazine. [32p] including covers, 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, listings, reviews, features, lightly-worn and toned else very good pastebound newsprint entertainment magazine. Cover story on the explosion and fire at the Society for Individual Rights auditorium on July 9th, 1972. More
Cat.No: 257760
Menlo Park: Printed and bound at Wilmac Press, San Mateo, by J. Wilson McKenney for the editor, 1963. Hardcover. Unpaginated material, 32p., frontis portrait; sewn hardbound in 9.2x6 inch clothbacked boards with printed paper label; upper cover decorated with a facsimile of a letter-page. Design and execution a little klunky..... More
Cat.No: 210051
Twain Harte: Reunion Press, Inc., 1984. [128p.], glossy colorphoto wraps, later printing (same year as first), some pressure marks on back and front covers, otherwise slightest signs of handling (no singe marks). FYI: Look to other Burkan treatments on the prep for the Big Hotfoot; in this book the Burkans..... More
Cat.No: 148626
no place: no publisher, [1975]. [14p.]9x13 inches, illustrated with news clippings and photos expertly laid down, very good in original leatherette boards with ribbon binding. Scrapbook recording the Fire Chief's visit to the UK. Two newspaper clippings (no indication of which papers) with photos, captions and short article. Seventeen approx..... More
Cat.No: 105723
Mondocino, CA: CAAAPH, 1979. 8p., 8.5x14 inch stapled mimeographed packet, with cover letter, in torn original envelope. The group was soliciting information from the VVAW, which had done work on Agent Orange, about the effects on firefighters when working in areas that had been sprayed with herbicides. More
Cat.No: 248612
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. 373p., very good first edition in dj. On the all-black Florida town burned out by a white mob, and the townspeople's seventy year struggle for justice. More
Cat.No: 253380
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Hardcover. 373p., first edition, dj. On the all-black Florida town burned out by a white mob, and the townspeople's seventy year struggle for justice. More
Cat.No: 37163
Sebastopol CA: dPress, 2004. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 35p., a sewn fastening, expertly homemade booklet with numerous xeroxed photoillustrations (sites, crews), 8x5 inch color photo covers, a nice unblemished copy. The author "ran a small, independent bookstore for twenty years in Ellensburg, Washington, and he subsidized it for fifteen of those..... More
Cat.No: 219290
New York: Liveright Pub. Corp. 2018. Hardcover. xxxviii, 343p., photographic endpapers, frontis-photo, map, historical figures, preface, introduction, notes, index, near fine first edition in boards and bright, unclipped dj. The story of the arson fire at the Up Stairs Lounge in NOLA in 1973 that murdered thirty-two people, many members..... More
Cat.No: 246937
![WFS Quarterly [28 issues]. Terese M. Floren](/pictures/thumb/244293.jpg?v=1571876769)
Dayton, Ohio: Women in Fire Suppression / Women in the Fire Service, 1986-1995. Twenty-eight issues of the newsletter, spanning the period from Spring 1986 to Summer 1995. Issues present are the unnumbered Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter 1986, Spring, Summer, and Fall 1987, Winter 1987-1988, Spring, Summer, and Fall 1988..... More
Cat.No: 244293
Paris: Henri Charpentier, Editeur, 1873. Hardcover. viii, 86p., twenty fullpage litho'd plates (complete run) in good shape, intact also as to text. Hardbound folio in 19.2x13 inch red cloth boards gilt, shows signs of a long-ago restoration to spine: relatively new red cloth (smooth) shows beneath the original red cloth..... More
Cat.No: 249039
New York: The Association, 1935. 206p., very good in original printed wraps. More
Cat.No: 118290
San Francisco: Norton Coker Press, 1991. 55p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches in stapled wraps, very good. Narrative fiction generated by a nurse employed at or a consumer of medical services at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, the MacArthur Blvd unit. Back cover features an in-house guide to fire hazards in surgery: "Virtually all..... More
Cat.No: 164649
